About 11:30 p.m., a Sun Country Airlines flight also reported being hit with a green laser, near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 14 miles southwest of Kennedy, the agency said.

No injuries or emergency landings were reported, but officials stressed that laser beams shining into cockpits can blind pilots, putting crews and passengers at risk.

"Green lasers have been a repeated danger to pilots across our metropolitan area and across the country," Sen. Charles Schumer said Friday in Long Beach, reiterating his call for a federal ban on long-range lasers. "We have to do something soon and not after a plane crashes."

The New York Democrat said Nassau County police, the FBI and the area's Joint Terrorism Task Force have launched a joint probe. Nassau police confirmed that detectives were investigating; an FBI spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Investigators don't believe the person using the laser in the Long Island incidents was in Bethpage State Park at the time, a state official said. Further details were not released.